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Pages in category "Ancient Greek runners" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The Death of Ladas, The Greek Runner, Who Died When Receiving the Crown of Victory in the Temple of Olympia by George Murray, 1899. The Ancient Olympic Games involved well-trained warriors competing in a variety of events. The warriors did not have any specialized training for the Olympics.
Ancient Greek runners (16 P) H. Greek hurdlers (2 C) L. Greek long-distance runners (4 C) M. Greek middle-distance runners (2 C) Greek mountain runners (1 P) S. Greek ...
Greek Race Walk Championships Marathon, Greece 4 × 100 m relay: 43.07 Greece Maria Tsoni Ekaterini Koffa Marina Vasarmidou Ekaterini Thanou: 18 June 1997 Mediterranean Games: Bari, Italy 4 × 400 m relay: 3:26.33 Greece Olga Kaidantzi Hrisoula Goudenoudi Hariklia Bouda Fani Halkia: 20 June 2004 European Cup Super League: Bydgoszcz, Poland
The Greek historian Herodotus was the first person to write about an Athenian runner named Pheidippides participating in the First Persian War. His account is as follows: [10] Before they left the city, the Athenian generals sent off a message to Sparta. The messenger was an Athenian named Pheidippides, a professional long-distance runner.
Classification: People: By occupation: Sportspeople by sport: Athletes: By nationality: Greek Also: Greece : People : By occupation : Sportspeople by sport : Athletes Wikimedia Commons has media related to Athletics competitors from Greece .
This is a list of ethnic Greeks who were born after the Declaration of the Greek War of Independence (1821), outside the borders of the Greek state. The list does not include Greeks born in the diasporan communities or Greeks of Cyprus (after its independence in 1960), but only Greeks born in the traditional Greek homelands (the Balkans ...
Yiannis Kouros (Greek: Γιάννης Κούρος, pronounced [ʝiˈa.nis ˈku.ros]; born 13 February 1956 in Tripoli, Kingdom of Greece) is a Greek ultramarathon runner based in Greece. Kouros holds or formerly held many world records between 100 miles and 1,000 miles.